Jenkins demanded an apology and considered asking Syracuse's two other black players to join the boycott but ultimately decided against it, according to the report.

"I didn't mean it in a derogatory way," Rogers told The New York Times. "I made a comment - an inappropriate comment. It was wrong at the time. I apologized there, on the spot. I apologized again to the team later. I didn't mean it in a bad way. I meant it in a good way. But obviously it came across not in a positive way."

Rogers graduated from Syracuse in 1987 and has been part of the coaching staff since 2005, when he joined as the director of lacrosse operations. He was named the team's defensive coordinator in 2007. Before that, he spent five years as the head lacrosse coach at Cortland.